Jobs would be crazy to have good driver support for OS X x86. He'd kill his own cash cow.
The sad thing is, if Apple had done this in 1994 before Windows 95 came out (because back then, Apple engineers had already gotten System 7 running on the 486 processor) Micro$oft probably wouldn't be in the near-monopoly position it is in now. Granted Apple is closed-source as well, and evil as well. But they have a better record of creating innovation. On 7/26/05, Federico Sevilla III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 04:33:45PM +0800, Orlando Andico wrote: > > on a side-note, we got a demand-for-takedown email from BSA (the usual > > stuff ISPs get). but what caught my attention was the file being > > shared (via bittorrent): an ISO for MacOS X Tiger for x86! > > > > totoo ba ito? > > I'm pretty sure even if true the driver support would be nonexistent. :P > > > > (pre-emptive sour-graping) > > Driver support for run-of-the-mill x86 will, speculatively, be bad, but > I'm sure driver support for the the Intel Mac hardware[1] should be > excellent. Assuming, of course, that the ISO being shared is from a > legitimate copy of Mac OS X Tiger for the Intel Mac (x86). > > [1] http://www.jasbone.com/blog/archives/2005/07/multibooting_in.html > > Actually, more than being excited for Mac OS X on run-of-the-mill x86 > boxes, I'm really excited about Intel Mac hardware that I've been > reading is really fast and I'm wagering, excellently engineered. As far > as hardware support is concerned, Linux on PowerPC Macs is okay, but I'm > hoping that Linux on Intel Macs will be even better. > > (Drooling in anticipation.) > > --> Jijo > > -- > Federico Sevilla III : jijo.free.net.ph : When we speak of free software > GNU/Linux Specialist : GnuPG 0x93B746BE : we refer to freedom, not price. > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
